Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio colloquy between William Green and Chairman Wagner of the National Labour Board struck out some very astounding things most astounding, perhaps, Senator Wagner's conception of "industrial democracy." That great principle which moulds and directs our political life is now going to be applied to our industry, according to the Senator, and by way of proof he adduces be fact that the Board has supervised twenty elections of labour representatives to collective bargaining conferences. What the weighting of labour and employer will be, Senator Wagner does not say; from the metaphysic of the Washington administration one imagines that...
What all this may mean in relation to "industrial democracy" is difficult to define. It is reminiscent of the celebrated British Whitley Report on capital and labour, which provided for the establishment in each industry of a Joint Standing Industrial Council, in which the industrialists and the workers had equal numerical representation. The Whitley Report did not set any limits to the power of these Councils; it set them up, and having set them up, found them good, because they were roughly "democratic" in their composition and did not affect any of the serious problems of a modern industrial society...
...unequivocally, an attempt to preserve Capitalism by violence. To support this view, he has outlined once more the lines along which the class struggle is waged, through "the century of the great hope" to the present period of frustration and despair. It is his thesis that the progressive parties, Labour in England and the Social Democrats in Germany, have been unwilling to face the implications of their own doctrine at the time when that doctrine might most opportunely be materialized...
...this withdrawal Labour and the Social Democrats concurred. If they had refused to do so, private ownership, the real issue of the class struggle, would have been clarified and its outcome hastened. To such an ordeal the progressive parties did not wish to commit themselves, and the capitalists of Germany and Italy took advantage of their hesitancy to install a regime of violent social reaction. Since the change was not a revolutionary transfer, but merely an assertion by the governing classes of their own actual power, it was not difficult to enlist, for the purpose, the support of a great...
Thundering forth across the waters from Italy, Benito Mussolini has once more made it known to the world that he intends to harness Capital and Labour together to make of them a Unity. Since his accession after the war, II Duce has repeatedly shouted to the populace below the advantages and tremendous possibilities of the Corporate State. Up to this year exactly three corporations have appeared, and those have had no existence off the foolscap on which their charters were printed. All power to the Corporate (Paper) State! POLLUX...